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    Tieflings and Aasimar - slightly specialist races: note on playing them

    Dormouse
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    Post  Dormouse Sat Feb 11, 2012 7:05 am

    If you want to a play a teifling or aassimar then please note the appropriate lore and conform to it. These races are regarded with suspicion by everyone else. Be forewarned that this will happen on this server too.

    We understand the attraction of playing against type, but the stereotyping in FR lore is there for a reason so we ask that you do not play utterly evil Aasimar or shiningly good tieflings of Lathandar.

    The reason is that we really don't want to have to impose playing restrictions on these classes, but we also want to retain the flavour of Faerun where these races are viewed with suspicion, and for good reason
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    Post  Dormouse Sat Feb 11, 2012 7:48 am

    For reference:

    Tieflings


    Carrying the taint of evil in their very souls, tieflings are persecuted and feared in most parts of Faerûn. Those with gross physical alterations are often killed at birth, and even those with less noticeable physical traits are sometimes killed by their own horrified parents. Occasionally a tiefling is born to someone indifferent to its appearance, determined to redeem it, willing to exploit it, or evil enough not to care about its nature, and these tieflings are most likely to survive to adulthood. Most tieflings are evil, but a few have managed to overcome their bloodline’s influence to make their own choices about good and evil.

    Tieflings are the distant descendants of a human and some evil outsider, such as a demon (usually a marilith or succubus), devil (usually an erinyes, gelugon, or pit fiend), night hag, rakshasa, or even a servant of an evil deity (some of these creatures must use magic to assume a form that is compatible with a human mate, of course).


    Tieflings live as outcasts. Feared for their evil heritage and often acting appropriately to their ancestry, they learn to keep people at a distance and hide that which makes them different. Like all the planetouched, they are different from their own parents; rarely has a tiefling been raised in a home filled with love. Tieflings are bitter folk who expect eventual rejection from even their best friends and easily fall into lives of crime, depravity, and cruelty. Tieflings look upon true fiends and other evil outsiders with envy and fear.

    Some tieflings reject their tainted blood and seek the light. Not many succeed for long, and far more slide to a comfortable place midway between evil and good. But of the creatures who work to be good, good-aligned tieflings probably work the hardest.



    Aasimaar

    Most aasimar are wary of their human neighbors. Even those raised by parents who understand their heritage cannot escape the stares of other children and adults, for humans fear that which is different. Aasimar usually experience a great deal of prejudice, which is all the more painful to the good-inclined aasimar who truly wants to help others survive in a hostile world. Aasimar are often seen as aloof, when in many cases this is a protective measure born of years of misunderstandings.

    Although aasimar are mostly human, they rarely feel like they fit in among human society. Instead, they get along best with other halfbreeds - namely, half-elves and half-orcs - because they and aasimar share the same sort of semi-outcast background.

    Dwarves, elves, gnomes and halflings are neither embraced nor shunned by aasimar, for while these races have no history of persecuting the planetouched, they don't have a reputation for sheltering them either. Genasi of all types are too alien compared to an aasimar to elicit sympathy or a sense of kinship.

    Tieflings are the one race that garners the most suspicion from an aasimar, for those touched by the holy understand its calling and therefore can guess what sort of temptation those with unholy blood must hear.

    DM_AXE
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    Post  DM_AXE Sat Feb 11, 2012 1:58 pm

    My view is if you want to play a tielfing that looks all demonic than play down in the UD, often planar visitors are often recieved well if they are of the Abyss, since that plane is generally CE and Lolth used to have her own plane within one of the layers, I believe now she created her own demiplane, but that might be technically ahead of the current server timeline. Technically even genesi should be treated with just as much craziness. People with fire smoldering off of their head I would think to the normal commoner would be no different than a demon invading the city. I think one thing we have to remember is our pc's are unique and often special, but some townsfolk are literally ignorant and stab anything with their pitchfork that doesn't look like them or run away from such things screaming DEMONS!
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    Post  CrystalDragon Sun Feb 12, 2012 12:08 am

    *spreads a rumor that the hearts of Earth Genesi are actually large diamonds*
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    Post  Umbral Thu Mar 08, 2012 5:13 am

    DM_AXE wrote:My view is if you want to play a tielfing that looks all demonic than play down in the UD, often planar visitors are often recieved well if they are of the Abyss, since that plane is generally CE and Lolth used to have her own plane within one of the layers, I believe now she created her own demiplane, but that might be technically ahead of the current server timeline. Technically even genesi should be treated with just as much craziness. People with fire smoldering off of their head I would think to the normal commoner would be no different than a demon invading the city. I think one thing we have to remember is our pc's are unique and often special, but some townsfolk are literally ignorant and stab anything with their pitchfork that doesn't look like them or run away from such things screaming DEMONS!

    Actually...yeah Smile. And the last thing you want to have is an invasion of Planetouched. They should be kind of rare, so at least let's try to remember their specific RP.
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    Post  Solarina Sat Apr 14, 2012 9:15 am

    I have never played one and doubt I ever will. If I ever did it would be a good asimar. I cannot realy get into evil chars much, well i had one once, kinda still do if i ever return to nwn1, but she wasn't like evil evil evil, she just liked to eat spleens.

    Ive always thought it odd on the RP servers i played that people would be so accepting of a tiefling and even defend ones they didn't know from anyone questioning its intents or calling it a devil etc. Same thing with people accepting orcs as party companions, orcs they just met no less.

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